The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation...

William Friedkin attends an exorcism with Father Gabriele Amorth, as he treats an Italian woman name...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...

Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was w...

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...
Uli Köhler and Nick Golücke have visited the protagonists of the 1990 World Cup 20 years after their...

Documentary released to coincide with the British Museum's exhibition dedicated to the man who ruled...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

A documentary that uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers never heard from before: Bla...

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own ga...

Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith K...

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.